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multiboot2: Add support for relocatable images

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Currently multiboot2 protocol loads image exactly at address specified in
ELF or multiboot2 header. This solution works quite well on legacy BIOS
platforms. It is possible because memory regions are placed at predictable
addresses (though I was not able to find any spec which says that it is
strong requirement, so, it looks that it is just a goodwill of hardware
designers). However, EFI platforms are more volatile. Even if required
memory regions live at specific addresses then they are sometimes simply
not free (e.g. used by boot/runtime services on Dell PowerEdge R820 and
OVMF). This means that you are not able to just set up final image
destination on build time. You have to provide method to relocate image
contents to real load address which is usually different than load address
specified in ELF and multiboot2 headers.

This patch provides all needed machinery to do self relocation in image code.
First of all GRUB2 reads min_addr (min. load addr), max_addr (max. load addr),
align (required image alignment), preference (it says which memory regions are
preferred by image, e.g. none, low, high) from multiboot_header_tag_relocatable
header tag contained in binary (at this stage load addresses from multiboot2
and/or ELF headers are ignored). Later loader tries to fulfill request (not only
that one) and if it succeeds then it informs image about real load address via
multiboot_tag_load_base_addr tag. At this stage GRUB2 role is finished. Starting
from now executable must cope with relocations itself using whole static and
dynamic knowledge provided by boot loader.

This patch does not provide functionality which could do relocations using
ELF relocation data. However, I was asked by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk and Vladimir
'phcoder' Serbinenko to investigate that thing. It looks that relevant machinery
could be added to existing code (including this patch) without huge effort.
Additionally, ELF relocation could live in parallel with self relocation provided
by this patch. However, during research I realized that first of all we should
establish the details how ELF relocatable image should look like and how it should
be build. At least to build proper test/example files.

So, this patch just provides support for self relocatable images. If ELF file
with relocs is loaded then GRUB2 complains loudly and ignores it. Support for
such files will be added later.

This patch was tested with Xen image which uses that functionality. However, this Xen
feature is still under development and new patchset will be released in about 2-3 weeks.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
This commit is contained in:
Daniel Kiper 2015-07-17 21:02:09 +02:00
parent f2b6c20a25
commit a620876e3b
6 changed files with 243 additions and 78 deletions
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include/multiboot2.h
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@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
#define MULTIBOOT_TAG_TYPE_EFI_BS 18
#define MULTIBOOT_TAG_TYPE_EFI32_IH 19
#define MULTIBOOT_TAG_TYPE_EFI64_IH 20
#define MULTIBOOT_TAG_TYPE_LOAD_BASE_ADDR 21
#define MULTIBOOT_HEADER_TAG_END 0
#define MULTIBOOT_HEADER_TAG_INFORMATION_REQUEST 1
@ -72,11 +73,16 @@
#define MULTIBOOT_HEADER_TAG_MODULE_ALIGN 6
#define MULTIBOOT_HEADER_TAG_EFI_BS 7
#define MULTIBOOT_HEADER_TAG_ENTRY_ADDRESS_EFI64 9
#define MULTIBOOT_HEADER_TAG_RELOCATABLE 10
#define MULTIBOOT_ARCHITECTURE_I386 0
#define MULTIBOOT_ARCHITECTURE_MIPS32 4
#define MULTIBOOT_HEADER_TAG_OPTIONAL 1
#define MULTIBOOT_LOAD_PREFERENCE_NONE 0
#define MULTIBOOT_LOAD_PREFERENCE_LOW 1
#define MULTIBOOT_LOAD_PREFERENCE_HIGH 2
#define MULTIBOOT_CONSOLE_FLAGS_CONSOLE_REQUIRED 1
#define MULTIBOOT_CONSOLE_FLAGS_EGA_TEXT_SUPPORTED 2
@ -161,6 +167,17 @@ struct multiboot_header_tag_module_align
multiboot_uint32_t size;
};
struct multiboot_header_tag_relocatable
{
multiboot_uint16_t type;
multiboot_uint16_t flags;
multiboot_uint32_t size;
multiboot_uint32_t min_addr;
multiboot_uint32_t max_addr;
multiboot_uint32_t align;
multiboot_uint32_t preference;
};
struct multiboot_color
{
multiboot_uint8_t red;
@ -387,6 +404,13 @@ struct multiboot_tag_efi64_ih
multiboot_uint64_t pointer;
};
struct multiboot_tag_load_base_addr
{
multiboot_uint32_t type;
multiboot_uint32_t size;
multiboot_uint32_t load_base_addr;
};
#endif /* ! ASM_FILE */
#endif /* ! MULTIBOOT_HEADER */